Noel Manley 910 69" Street Darien, IL 60561 March 30, 2015 Complaint Manager c/o Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Administration Building 5500 South Grant Hinsdale IL 60521 re: Uniform Grievance complaint versus Jennifer Planson To the Complaint Manager: The evening of March 12, 2015, my wife and I parked in the north lot at Hinsdale South High School and walked toward the north entrance of the building. We ‘were present for the purpose of attending our daughter’s opening night performance of The Crucible in the school auditorium. As we approached the building, we noticed two people (one student we recognized as Marissa duPont, and an adult we did not recognize, but later learned is Mary Sullivan) standing just north of the building entrance. We could see they were approaching people as they walked from the lot to the doors. As we drew nearer, we could see they were, in fact, distributing campaign material for a slate of candidates for election April 7" to the office of Member of the District 86° Board of Education. Specifically, the literature supported candidates Jennifer Planson, Kathleen Hirsman and Bill Carpenter. My wife is currently a sitting Board Member (whose term is not expiring), and chairs the Board Policy Committee. She is, therefore, highly knowledgeable of Board policy and passionate about compliance issues. We agreed the activity we were observing is prohibited by Board Policy(ies), and approached Ms. Sullivan. ‘We questioned her right to distribute political campaign materials on District 86 property, advising that it is prohibited by Board Policy, and that they should re-locate off schoo! property. Ms Sullivan maintained she was lawdully present, and claimed - to the best of my recollection, in these words: “We have permission to be on the grounds * Hinsdale Township High School District 86 (District 86).because Jennifer Planson said there is no policy [against it].""" (Emphasis added.) Marissa intervened in the discussion, defending her presence and activity by saying she “was asked to be here.” Complaint is, therefore, hereby made against Jennifer Planson, District 86 Board Member and candidate for re-election in the April 7" Consolidated Election in two particulars: 1. Jennifer Planson did collaborate or devise with Mary Sullivan, Marissa duPont and possibly unknown others, to instigate and proximately cause a violation of District 86 Policies 8:30, 4:20, 2:80" and possibly other policies, by recruiting, inducing and/or inciting said persons to engage in prohibited activity on the campus of Hinsdale South High School. 2. Jennifer Planson purported, as a single Board of Education Member, to grant permission to Mary Sullivan, Marissa duPont and possibly unknown others to engage in conduct violative of District 86 Policies 4:20, 8:30 and possibly other policies. Such aetion violates Policy 2:80*: “I will recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a board meeting”; see also, 105 ILCS 5/10-16.5. CONCLUSION, 1 ask that investigation be made into the circumstances specified herein, that findings be reported to the Superintendent that Jennifer Planson has violated Board Policy as I have stated herein, and that the Superintendent will thereupon take the action necessary and proper to remedy said violations. Respectfully submitted, N (oel Manley ‘See also, comments by Mary Sullivan — from a prepared writen statement —at the Board meeting of March 23, 2015 (video posted at official District 86 website, at Minute 0:54:00). * See, point 4 of the Ilinois Association of School Boards (IASB) Code of Conduct: “I will take no private action that might compromise the board or administration ...“, incorporated by reference into District 86 icy. FLASH Code of Conduct, Point 3.